Plato 2 Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul

This series aims to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

1 - Socrates and Democracy
2 - Socratic Piety
3 - The Unity of Virtue
4 - Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory
5 - The Individual as Object of Love in Plato
6 - Republic II: Objections to Justice
7 - Plato's Theory of Human Motivation
8 - Plato's Defense of Justice
9 - Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521
10 - The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic
11 - Plato's Republic and Feminism
12 - Plato's Totalitarianism
13 - Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City
14 - The Idea of Godlikeness
15 - Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus
16 - Rumplestiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus
17 - Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws
18 - The Soul and Immortality
19 - Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She is author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (1993), and co-editor of Aristotle: Selections (1995) and Aristotle: Introductory Readings (1996).